Form: Diaries / Language: English / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1881">1881</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Theodore Brinton Hetzel papers and graphics, 1866-1987 (inclusive) 1930-1987 (bulk)

Extent:: 13 linear ft. (26 boxes)
Abstract:: Theodore Hetzel (1906-1990) was a Quaker professor of engineering at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, whose interests led him to involvement with Native American and Quaker issues. An avid photographer, the materials in this collection are primarily photographic, as well as correspondence and documents.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Joshua Sharpless diaries, 1798, 1965 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.16 linear ft. (2 volumes)
Abstract:: Entries describe Sharpless's travel to, and time spent in, Cornplanter's village during 1798.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Anna Yarnall diaries, 1856-1885 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.16 linear ft. (43 volumes)
Abstract:: Anna Yarnall's diary entries describe weather, social calls, domestic duties, family news, attendance at meetings, births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community, and the health of herself and family members.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Anne Hampton Brewster papers, 1845-1892 (bulk) 1777-1892 (inclusive)

Extent:: 28.0 containers
Abstract:: Anne Hampton Brewster (1818-1892) was an American novelist, journalist and foreign correspondent who defied contemporary conceptions of womanhood and society during the nineteenth century. The papers date from 1777 to 1892, with the majority of the materials dating from 1845 to 1892. The materials primarily consist of diaries, journals, commonplace books, correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes about her writings and drafts of her writings. The materials document Anne Hampton Brewster’s personal life with friends and family, and they document her professional life as a journalist and writer.

Held at: Library Company of Philadelphia [Contact Us]

Margaret Jenkins journals, 1875-1912 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.54 linear ft. (3 volumes)
Abstract:: This collection is comprised of three volumes of the travel journals of Margaret Jenkins. The first volume describes Jenkins's voyage from New York to San Francisco, and her voyage home from San Francisco to New York via Liverpool. The remaining two volumes describe Margaret Jenkins's trip to the Himalayan Mountains in 1911 and 1912, to visit her cousin, who was a missionary there.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Kelsey Family papers, 1872-1934 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.88 linear ft.
Abstract:: This collection contains materials relating to Rayner Kelsey and his father, Asa Kelsey.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Stokes family papers, 1839-1887

Extent:: 0.2 linear ft. (4 volumes)
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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Peace, Augustine, Mary, and Edwin Jones letters and diaries, 1866-1901 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: This collection contains letters and diaries related to Peace, Augustine, Mary, and Edwin Jones between the years of 1866-1901.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

James Tyson Family Papers, 1854-1982 (inclusive) 1854-1908 (bulk)

Extent:: 0.5 cubic feet
Abstract:: James Tyson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1863, and went on to a noted career as a physician in Philadelphia. His interested in pathology led to his career as an educator, and he eventually rose in the ranks of the Penn Medical School. The bulk of the James Tyson collection is his correspondence to his father Henry Tyson, his sister, and his wife, Fannie Bosdevex.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]

Sharpless Family Papers, 1792-1892 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 linear ft. (4 boxes)
Abstract:: The collection represents two branches of the Sharpless family of Pennsylvania descended from Joseph and Lydia (Lewis) Sharpless). It contains correspondence between extended Sharpless family relations including Sharpless, Hunn, Jones, Drinker families and journals of Joshua Sharpless, a Quaker minister who worked with Native Americans and visited Quaker meetings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Canada. Correspondence covers various topics including the travels of women ministers, yellow fever, and contemporary events. The second series contains primarily nineteenth century correspondence of the extended family of Townsend and Mary Brinton (Jones) Sharpless. It includes letters written by Henry H. G. Sharpless during his European tour and extensive correspondence received by Ezekiel Hunn who served briefly in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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